Javatari: A multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java

by ppeccin • 14 years ago

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gkarness• 14 years ago

Awesome interface! You have to find your own ROM files to play, but its easy... Just drag and drop ROM links from websites directly over the screen and BAM!

cintiapersona• 14 years ago

Playing space invaders at the office with friends right now

carolsales• 14 years ago

Wow that IS vintage :-)))

willhsiung• 14 years ago

Thanks - been many years since playing the 2600 and brings back memories!

nnnnni• 14 years ago

COMBAT!!

saddino• 14 years ago

Such a nice project, but both the name and logo infringe on Atari trademarks. Why risk it?

eric_bullington3• 14 years ago

I would love nothing more than to play Defender or Yar's Revenge, but I can't bring myself to execute arbitrary binaries downloaded off the internet. Any safe place where one can download or buy roms? If whoever owns Atari now were smart, they'd sell them through a legitimate online marketplace so we could safely run them on very nice 2600 emulators like this one.

EDIT: Found an answer, waking up half my family in the process (Yar's revenge is not a low-volume game). Atari does, in fact, both sell and offer some of their old 2600 games for free: http://atari.com/arcade/arcade/yars-revenge

adgar2• 14 years ago

Use a virtual machine.

eric_bullington3• 14 years ago

That's true, I run XP on virtualbox (linux host) almost every day, and could just make a throw-away copy with no network access. I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that.

Thanks!

wavephorm• 14 years ago

The Java Virtual Machine is a virtual machine.

charliesome• 14 years ago

Console emulators are virtual machines. I'm not sure what the GP is concerned about.

unwind• 14 years ago

So, uh, you're afraid that someone has introduced malware in Atari 2600 machine code, that can break out of any arbitrary emulator and do Real Damage to a hosting system, and hidden that in what appear to be vintage game ROMs on the Internet?

That would be quite the malware, indeed.

Javatari: A multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java

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